[Mike Clasby]

Here’s a wrok-around (or limp-around).

Add another camera, Camera 2, drag it below your Active Camera (assuming you have a camera 1 already).

Windows > Workplace > Two Camera View

Set the second view to Camera 2. Select Camera 2, then with the “Track Z Camera Tool” back off until you can see all your layers.

On AE 6.5 when I ram preview, I don’t see the movement of the layers in View 2 (the one with Camera 2 backed off), but when I scrub the time line I get all movemnet in both views (both cameras, one in each view).

[Mike Clasby]

Stylize>CC Film Burn

And the pattern of darkening to burn spots can be controlled with the Center and Random Seed properties, then just animate the Burn from 0-100 (or less) to get you blackening.

And if you animate Stylize>CC Glass (or CC Blobbylize), that will give you the bubbly look of print heating to the point of burning.

Sometimes Roughen Edges (with the Edge Type>Roughen Color) works with this setup.

Anyway Film Burn and Glass will get you toward Darkening => Bubbling => just before flaming.

You can even get a little curling with page turn, but you need to precomp the stuff above to get the curling backside showing the blackening and Roughen Color.

[Mike Clasby]

Look no father than Serge Hamad (top of page), here’s the link to one of his “examples”, many great AE projects with project files, this one is great;

https://www.nyc-visual.com/3D_Book_M.html

[Mike Clasby]

Quaker uses tow Sliders, Frequency and Magnitude, and motion tile to fill in the gaps (edges exposed when you wiggle a layer). It comes with a pdf explaining all, and it’s free.

[Mike Clasby]

Quaker, an Animation Preset free from Scott Frizzle. It’s a gem.

https://scottfrizzle.com/free.html

Applying Preset the first time:

Select the layer you wish to affect, and go to Effect > Apply Favorite.
Find Quaker on your harddrive and select it (quaker.ffx).
(I recommend you put it in your Abode After Effects>Support Files > Presets folder,
that way it will always appear in your Preset menu.)

[Mike Clasby]

Oh, yeah, don’t use the Checkbox and a Slider both to control your expression unless you thrive on chaos.

[Mike Clasby]

Oh, yeah, don’t use the Checkbox and a Slider both to control your expression unless you thrive on chaos.

[Mike Clasby]

Dan’s expression above, (which I think is the slickest), is made for a Checkbox on the same layer, and like you said you want a master Controller for many layers, so:

Layer > New > Null Object

If it’s your first null it will be named “Null 1”
Go ahead and twirl down to Effect, Checkbox Contro, until you get to the Stopwatch for Checkbox, we’re going to pickwhip to this later.

paste Dan’s expression into the Position property of one of the layer you want to wiggle:

control = effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”) ;

if (control == 1){
wiggle(5,50); // your expression goes here
}else{
value;
}

And you get an instant warning that the expression can’t find the Checkbox, so

Highlight (select):

effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”)

or everthing between the = and the ; in the first line of Dan’s expression,
now drag the pickwhip from the expression (the middle of the 3 little boxes that looks like an @, to the right of Position) to the twirled down Checkbox (up in the Null Layer), and AE changes the highlighted section and gives you this:

control = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”) ;

if (control == 1){
wiggle(5,50); // your expression goes here
}else{
value;
}

So, set some keyrames up and down the timeline for the checkbox, and the layer will respond to the turned On/Off expression.

Now, like Colin said, Select, the layer that wiggles, and its Position property, then, Edit>Copy Expression Only, then select the other layers you want to put the expression on and Edit > Paste (Ctrl V) and everbody should wiggle to the Checkbox keyframes.

Likewise, if you want a Slider, put it on the Null Layer, then like I said in the first post, highlight the first number in the wiggle expression (the Frequency):

wiggle (5, 20)

highlight the “5” and pickwhip to the Slider up in the Null layer. Copy/Paste as above to the other layers. Now you control the Frequency of the wiggle with a slider.

[Mike Clasby]

Dan’s expression above, (which I think is the slickest), is made for a Checkbox on the same layer, and like you said you want a master Controller for many layers, so:

Layer > New > Null Object

If it’s your first null it will be named “Null 1”
Go ahead and twirl down to Effect, Checkbox Contro, until you get to the Stopwatch for Checkbox, we’re going to pickwhip to this later.

paste Dan’s expression into the Position property of one of the layer you want to wiggle:

control = effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”) ;

if (control == 1){
wiggle(5,50); // your expression goes here
}else{
value;
}

And you get an instant warning that the expression can’t find the Checkbox, so

Highlight (select):

effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”)

or everthing between the = and the ; in the first line of Dan’s expression,
now drag the pickwhip from the expression (the middle of the 3 little boxes that looks like an @, to the right of Position) to the twirled down Checkbox (up in the Null Layer), and AE changes the highlighted section and gives you this:

control = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”) ;

if (control == 1){
wiggle(5,50); // your expression goes here
}else{
value;
}

So, set some keyrames up and down the timeline for the checkbox, and the layer will respond to the turned On/Off expression.

Now, like Colin said, Select, the layer that wiggles, and its Position property, then, Edit>Copy Expression Only, then select the other layers you want to put the expression on and Edit > Paste (Ctrl V) and everbody should wiggle to the Checkbox keyframes.

Likewise, if you want a Slider, put it on the Null Layer, then like I said in the first post, highlight the first number in the wiggle expression (the Frequency):

wiggle (5, 20)

highlight the “5” and pickwhip to the Slider up in the Null layer. Copy/Paste as above to the other layers. Now you control the Frequency of the wiggle with a slider.

[Mike Clasby]

Ya, beat me to the draw, Pardner.